Colonial Pipeline Shells Out $5M in Extortion Payout, Report
According to news reports, Colonial Pipeline paid the cybergang known as DarkSide the ransom it demanded in return for a decryption key.
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Author: Tom Spring
Hackers Leverage Adobe Zero-Day Bug Impacting Acrobat Reader
A patch for Adobe Acrobat, the world’s leading PDF reader, fixes a vulnerability under active attack affecting both Windows and macOS systems that could lead to arbitrary code execution.
Read MoreMajor U.S. Pipeline Crippled in Ransomware Attack
Colonial Pipeline Company says it is the victim of a cyberattack that forced the major provider of liquid fuels to the East Coast to temporarily halted all pipeline operations.
Read MoreHewlett Packard Enterprise Plugs Critical Bug in Edge Platform Tool
Researchers warned that unpatched versions of HPE’s Edgeline Infrastructure Manager are open to remote authentication-bypass attacks.
Read MoreMozilla Fixes Firefox Flaw That Allowed Spoofing of HTTPS Browser Padlock
The Mozilla Foundation releases Firefox 88, fixing 13 bugs ranging from high to low severity.
Read MoreMicrosoft Has Busy April Patch Tuesday with Zero-Days, Exchange Fixes
Microsoft fixes 110 vulnerabilities, with 19 classified as critical and another flaw under active attack.
Read MoreHow the NAME:WRECK Bugs Impacts Consumers, Businesses
How this class of vulnerabilities will impact millions connected devices and potentially wreck the day of IT security professionals.
Read MoreZero-Day Bug Impacts Problem-Plagued Cisco SOHO Routers
Cisco says it will not patch three small business router models and one VPN firewall device with critical vulnerabilities.
Read More533M Facebook Accounts Leaked Online: Check if You Are Exposed
An estimated 32 million, of the half-billion of Facebook account details posted online, were tied to US-based accounts.
Read MoreLegacy QNAP NAS Devices Vulnerable to Zero-Day Attack
Some legacy models of QNAP network attached storage devices are vulnerable to remote unauthenticated attacks because of two unpatched vulnerabilities.
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